Stories on Board!
Creating Board Games from Favorite Tales
Price: $30.00
ISBN13: 9781591588627
ISBN10: 1591588626
Book code: LU8862
Libraries Unlimited
Paperback
| 107 pages
Publication Date: 05/04/2010
DESCRIPTION
Ever-popular, board games can be an ideal teaching tool. In Stories on Board!: Creating Board Games from Favorite Tales, award-winning storyteller Dianne de Las Casas shows how it's done, allowing students to create their own board games with a unique method that integrates learning and fun.
With Stories on Board!, students read and listen to popular folktales, analyze the structure of the story through story mapping, and then create a board game based on their analysis, engaging their aural, visual, and tactile skills. The lesson culminates in a Game Day in which the students play each other's games. The technique is a great way to introduce a unit on folktales, covering language arts and social studies.
This unique learning tool lets students read and listen to a popular folktale, analyze the structure through story mapping, and create a board game based on their analysis.
Gaming is a hot trend right now, with schools and libraries across the country holding regular game nights using both video and board games. This is no surprise given that board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history; some even predating literacy-skill development in the earliest civilizations.
TITLE FEATURES
· Addresses reading comprehension and writing through story mapping and analysis
· Offers a fun and creative way to introduce a unit on folktales
· Links to the social studies curriculum, the math and geometry curriculum, and the language arts curriculum
· Includes drawings of the various types of board games
· Provides a glossary of board game terms and a bibliography of folktales
Dianne de Las Casas is an author and award-winning storyteller who tours internationally, presenting programs, educator/librarian training, workshops, and artist residencies. She is the author of many books, including the Libraries Unlimited titles Scared Silly: 25 Tales to Tickle and Thrill; Tangram Tales: Story Theater Using the Ancient Chinese Puzzle; Handmade Tales: Stories to Make and Take; and The Story Biz Handbook: How To Manage Your Storytelling Career from the Desk to the Stage.